Is there a limit on how many Unit ID names you can have on a SDS. Building a spreadsheet matching UID #'s to UID names.
SDS100/SDS200: Unit ID's
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It is limited by the size of the favorite list. 1024k is the size limit, so you can have as many talk groups and unit id's as you can fit in that space.
Ubbe
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Go to My Document folder on your PC and to the Uniden/BCDx36HP folder and to FavoriteLists.
Open the f_list.cfg file with Notepad or any text file reader. There you will see one line with your favorite list name followed by f_0000xxxx.hpd
That is the file name in the same folder for your favorite list and check the size of it.
If you use something like a 16 character UID name it will take up 5kB for one hundred UID's. The hpd file are a plain text file so if you have 26 character UID names it will be a 10x100=1kB bigger file. 1000kB are the maximum file size.
/Ubbe
I have over 5300 Names in mine and others have many more than me.
I've got a statewide TRS (Minnesota) loaded and also has 2,000 Unit IDs. Its file size is 561KB, or just about half the maximum allowable.
Ubbe
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How do you enter all those UID's? Is it a manual process or can the data be imported from somewhere?
/Ubbe
One at a time.
The 3-P's...pen/paper/patience. I have 3 systems with over 3,000 each.
I use Butel’s ARC536PO software to be able to copy/paste channels, departments or UIDs. Works great.
Sentinel works just fine for my needs.
Are radio ID's avalailable in the database? Sentinel accomplishes the goal to add UID's (radio ID's) just fine.
RRDB, no. Some county wikis document them
Yes, know about them, just thought it was now in the database the way it was posted. Some time ago, I remember a discussion about including it in the database, thinking it was happening in some places.
I created an Excel spreadsheet based on how it needs to be for Sentinel, and then I conditional formatted it to flag me on duplicate UID or names.
